John Milton: the Patriot and PoetPartridge & Oakey, 1852 - 235 pages |
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... never in the whole history of language more accurately and vividly bodied forth the most exalted con- ceptions . The music of the stanza is perfect , too , and the last line of each verse the Alex- andrinian close , is like the swelling ...
... never in the whole history of language more accurately and vividly bodied forth the most exalted con- ceptions . The music of the stanza is perfect , too , and the last line of each verse the Alex- andrinian close , is like the swelling ...
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... life in the times of Elizabeth or the Stuarts . They give , immediately upon their perusal , a con- tradiction to Johnson's criticism , that " Milton never learned the art of doing little things with grace HORTON , BUCKINGHAMSHIRE . 27.
... life in the times of Elizabeth or the Stuarts . They give , immediately upon their perusal , a con- tradiction to Johnson's criticism , that " Milton never learned the art of doing little things with grace HORTON , BUCKINGHAMSHIRE . 27.
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Edwin Paxton Hood. never learned the art of doing little things with grace ; he overlooked the milder excellence of suavity and softness ; he was a lion that had no skill in dangling a kid . " Most of his shorter poems are eminently ...
Edwin Paxton Hood. never learned the art of doing little things with grace ; he overlooked the milder excellence of suavity and softness ; he was a lion that had no skill in dangling a kid . " Most of his shorter poems are eminently ...
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... never was heard the stroke of the rude axe , and nymphs , in their hallowed coverts of the brooks , were never disturbed by the eye of the profane , -there would the musing man go , accompanied during the day only by the bee singing ...
... never was heard the stroke of the rude axe , and nymphs , in their hallowed coverts of the brooks , were never disturbed by the eye of the profane , -there would the musing man go , accompanied during the day only by the bee singing ...
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... never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale , And love the high embowed roof , With antique pillars massy proof , And storied windows , richly dight , Casting a dim religious light . There let the pealing organ blow , To the full ...
... never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale , And love the high embowed roof , With antique pillars massy proof , And storied windows , richly dight , Casting a dim religious light . There let the pealing organ blow , To the full ...
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